Bug#844395: gdm3: Black screen (under virtualbox) (same thing in gnome-shell started with startx)

Andrea Zagli azagli at libero.it
Tue Nov 15 08:17:11 UTC 2016


Package: gdm3
Version: 3.22.1-1
Severity: normal

In virtualbox (at least, i didn't try on other pc) after last update, i think,
of mesa gdm3 display nothing, only a black screen

same thing if i "manually" start gnome-shell from command line with start

mate desktop works



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                           0.6.40-3
ii  adduser                                   3.115
ii  dconf-cli                                 0.26.0-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                   0.26.0-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                     1.5.59
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                            3.22.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]         3.22.2-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                         3.22.2-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                     3.22.1-1
ii  gnome-shell                               3.22.2-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]      3.22.1-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                 3.22.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                       0.6.40-3
ii  libaudit1                                 1:2.6.7-1
ii  libc6                                     2.24-5
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                        0.30-3
ii  libcanberra0                              0.30-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                        2.36.0-1
ii  libgdm1                                   3.22.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                              2.50.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                            2.50.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                3.22.3-2
ii  libkeyutils1                              1.5.9-9
ii  libpam-modules                            1.1.8-3.3
ii  libpam-runtime                            1.1.8-3.3
ii  libpam-systemd                            232-3
ii  libpam0g                                  1.1.8-3.3
ii  librsvg2-common                           2.40.16-1
ii  libselinux1                               2.6-3
ii  libsystemd0                               232-3
ii  libwrap0                                  7.6.q-25
ii  libx11-6                                  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxau6                                   1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                 1:1.1.2-1.1
ii  lsb-base                                  9.20161101
ii  marco [x-window-manager]                  1.16.0-1
ii  mate-session-manager [x-session-manager]  1.16.0-1
ii  mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]       1.16.1-1
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]               1:3.22.1-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]                 3.22.2-1
ii  policykit-1                               0.105-17
ii  ucf                                       3.0036
ii  x11-common                                1:7.7+16
ii  x11-xserver-utils                         7.7+7

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.22.0-4
ii  desktop-base    8.0.2
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+3
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.18.4-2
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+16
ii  zenity          3.22.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.22.2-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.20.0-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf information:
   gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3



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